Dagnir Glaurunga

		Húrin Thalion		Morwen Eledhwen
Niënor Níniel		Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga	Lalaith	Niënor Níniel

A title of Túrin Turambar, meaning 'Bane of Glaurung', that commemorated his slaying of the Dragon Glaurung above the Ravines of Teiglin. After a cursed life of conflict and trouble, Túrin had settled in Brethil where he briefly found peace and happiness, until his forest home was threatened by the immense Dragon. Túrin had seen that Glaurung would have to cross the narrow ravine of Cabed-en-Aras, and so he had climbed down into the perilous cleft and was able to pierce the Dragon as it clambered across the river.

So the Dragon was slain, but Morgoth's curse on all of Túrin's kin quickly turned triumph to disaster. As the Dragon died, it had revealed that Túrin's wife Níniel was in fact his sister Niënor (who had been ensorcelled by the Dragon to forget her identity, and whom Túrin had not known in childhood). This dreadful revelation caused both Túrin and Niënor to take their own lives.

Túrin was buried in a mound near the place where he had slain the Dragon, and stone was raised over his grave, on which he was remembered as Dagnir Glaurunga. This title seems to have later found its way into tradition, and in accounts of his family and their accomplishments in The Silmarillion, he is listed as the 'Bane of Glaurung' following the inscription. The grave marker itself - called the Stone of the Hapless - was said to have survived the drowning of the land at the end of the First Age, and so the memory of Túrin's slaying of the Dragon was preserved on the new island of Tol Morwen.